Mr Steve Webb > Thompson Smith and Puxon > Colchester, England > Lawyer Profile
Thompson Smith and Puxon Offices
STABLE 6, STABLE ROAD
COLCHESTER
CO2 7GL
England
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Mr Steve Webb
Work Department
Personal Injury Claimant. Clinical Negligence Claimant
Position
Director, Solicitor
Career
Steven is the director of Steven J Webb Limited, a partner in the firm. He leads TSP’s Litigation department, a team of some 20 people, dealing with Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Civil and Commercial Dispute Resolution and Employment Law, and heads up both the Personal Injury and Clinical negligence teams. Following qualification, Steve worked predominantly on cases involving Personal Injury, and is an accredited Member of the Law Society’s Personal Injury Panel and also an accredited Senior Litigator with the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL), but now also deals with cases covering all aspects of both Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence. In particular, he has worked on a number of high value cases involving brain injury and his case load includes several complicated clinical negligence matters.
Steve qualified as a solicitor in 1990. He is local to the Colchester area and attended the Colchester Royal Grammar School before going on to gain his Law degree at Leeds University. He studied for his professional exams at Nottingham Trent University and joined TSP as an articled clerk in 1988. He became a partner in the firm in 2001, and in 2006, when the structure of Thompson Smith and Puxon changed, he became a director of Steven J. Webb Ltd, a corporate partner in TSP. Steve was the firm’s Managing Partner from Jan 2016- Dec 2018.
Memberships
Steve is a member of the Law Society’s Personal Injury panel and an accredited Personal Injury specialist. He is accredited as an APIL (Association of Personal Injury Lawyers) Senior Litigator. All of the Personal Injury Lawyers in Steve’s team are APIL members.
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
With ‘impressive strength and depth of experience and practice‘, Thompson Smith and Puxon excels across claims involving road traffic accidents and accidents at work. Steve Webb heads up the practice from Colchester and is particularly active in cases involving brain injuries. Other key names include the ‘superb‘ Hasina Choudhury and Sam Welham, who has niche expertise in issues relating to work-related stress.
South East > Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
Praised as ‘fantastic’, Thompson Smith and Puxon is noted for going ‘above and beyond’ as well as for the team’s ‘compassionate’ nature. Steve Webb helms the team and is noted for his ability to handle brain injury cases. He is supported by Hasina Choudhury, who is fluent in Bengali, Hindu and Urdu and has routinely been engaged by clients for advice regarding negligently performed surgery and various birth cases. Stacey Anderson contributes her particular expertise in gynaecological and obstetric cases to the practice.
Lawyer Rankings
- Clinical negligence: claimant South East > Insurance
- Personal injury: claimant South East > Insurance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Real estate > Commercial property: Essex
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Essex
- Employment > Employment: Essex
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Essex
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Essex
- Private client > Family: Essex